Improvement in water-proof compounds for coating cloth, wood, metals



. two parts UNITED STATES Y PETER E. MINOR, 0E SOHENEGTADY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lNlWATER-PROOF COMPOUNDS FOR COATING CLOTH, woou, METALS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 112,370, dated March 7, 1871.

Schenectady, inthecounty of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented a new and useful composition of matter called Minors Air and Water Proof Go1npound,'used for 7 coating surfaces, and for saturating cloth,

leather, paper, and other substances to protect them fromthe efl'ects of air and water.

Myinventionconsists in properly mixing and applying collodion, Venice turpentine, castor-oil, glycerine, and shellac.

The compound is prepared as follows, viz:

Take of collodiofi, about thirty parts Venice s nner,

tine,;a one part; casto r-oihabout one par'tyshelc dissolved in alco 1, about g about onepart; and place them all m 0 e vessel, and stir them until they are thoroughly mixed together, when the compound is ready for use.

.loapply my compound to surfaces a soft varnishor paint brush or sponge may be used, and]: any niunber of coats may be applied to thoroughly protect the surface from the air and water. l 3 i To saturate icloth, paper, or other substances,

they are submerged in the compoiuid for a sufiicient time, varying in length in accordance with the nature of the article to be saturated, and as many times as may be required to render the substance impermeable.

This compound may be used instead of varnish or paint on all wooden, metallic, and

other substances, and in place of rubber in the manufacture of impermeable fabrics; and

it may be used also for roofing by covering it while soft with a coating of plaster-of-paris.

Coloring matter may be added to render the compor any required color; but when required to be transparent, or to be used on lightcolored substances, the bleached shellac is used in making the compound.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- I The manufacture or preparation of the compound denominated Minors air and water proof compound, of the ingredients substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth. 7

PETER E. MINOR. Witnesses: J. F. OLMSTEAD,

F. OLMSTEAD, ST. JOHN B. S. SKINNER.

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